Whether it is a plant for the cars,
holy city that turned into ghost,
Whether it is a cloister for us
with its daily procedures and song.
Here, under the tent of bright cressets
We all walk along great alleyway,
Here dust is in archive collected
and here everyone sits in his cell.
Here silence is like for a prayer
and you can not go over the fence.
For someone where God - prison is there,
but for us - a reward is God's Grace.
I see no people and no friends there,
And I never see anyone's faults,
And the sky becomes brighter at exit,
behind familiar icon shop.
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То ли это завод для машин,
святой город, что стал привиденьем,
То ли это для нас монастырь
с распорядком и внутренним пеньем.
Здесь под пологом светлых лучин
Все гуляют вдоль длинной аллеи,
Здесь веками пылится архив,
и здесь каждый сидит в своей келье.
Здесь молитвенная тишина,
и нельзя выходить за ограду.
для кого-то где Бог - там тюрьма,
а для нас Благодать - как награда.
Я не вижу друзей и людей,
я не вижу ничьих недостатков,
И на выходе небо светлей
за знакомой иконною лавкой.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
This poem achieves its topic from the very beginning with a once holy place restored to the site of a car plant which just seems to vanish, Instead the place is in this vision a kind of monastery with a cell for the silent meditation of its dweller. Not much happens on the surface because everyone is deep in the experience of God's grace and the spiritual connection between human being and God is so complete that SILENCE IS LIKE A PRAYER. And that simile means the very existence of people in this holy place has become a prayer; PRAYER IS NOT SOMETHING THEY DO, PRAYER IS WHAT THEY ARE. That is as fine a definition of life in heaven as I have encountered. And it is expressed in the simplest, most direct way